Wednesday, August 06, 2008

msb-0336 Terrence & Phil, lip

msb-0336 Terrence & Phil, lip

Chicks On Speed:
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intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://msbpodcast.pbwiki.com/TheShows ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

The video that accompanies this wiki page, this podcast entry, this blog entry is just "Chicks On Speed" captured at one point in time and, just like that ... "they" are gone.

The problem with the "Chicks On Speed" is that they're a process. (The "speed" is not a drug, well not a chemical kind, but their rate of transformation; which can be just as addicting.)

They're always in a state of becoming.

They have already moved on to the next fashion, to the next tonal experiment, to the next state of being, because becoming is what they're all about. They cannot be halted because in halting, they cease to be and become something else, something different.

Like us ... becoming our selves, is what we should be all about; being ourselves. regardless of what life throws in our faces.

---- "Speed Controller" by: "Afrigo Band" http://www.africancreammusic.com/web/content/view/73/27/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "High Speed" by: "Darcy Fray" http://myspace.com/darcyfray

Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send us an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"

---- "Speed Spleen" by: "Pierre Journel" http://www.lepcc.net/

"Thesis:"

Sorry but I thought of another "Phil" when I received Shauna's audio for this week :-)

Its an obligatory South Park reference.

---- "The Speed Of Sound" by: "Kernel Drop" http://www.myspace.com/kerneldrop

"Synthesis:"

My own Dr. Phil

I began creative writing when I learned how to read. One of my many aspirations as a teen was to be a writer, a novelist and/or journalist. I still may be a novelist some day but don't hold your breath. When I got to university, I took a creative writing course that wasn't part of my regular studies. I was only 17 but soon realized that I wouldn't be able to support myself as a writer. I had some minor talent but didn't have the discipline.

The course that I took was led by my very own Dr. Phil. I've mentioned him before. I eventually took an English course from him as well. It's kind of funny that my favourite profs were not related to my field of study. (Another favoured English prof I had once accidently poisoned an old boyfriend with a seafood casserole, but that's a whole other post)

Anyway, 24 years go by and I mention Dr. Phil in my blog. Then I sent him a note, reintroducing myself and pointing him in the direction of his mention on the blog and warning him of the soon to be stampeding crowds of papparazzi to his front door. Of course that didn't happen (the crowds, that is) but Dr. Phil and I have begun e-mail correspondence. Originally from the states, and transplanted into a very tiny rural community, I looked at him (as I did with all my profs, actually) as larger than life, with an infinite amount of wisdom, and the power to make or break me as a student. I still felt that way upon graduation, fearing the university would say to me as I got on stage to accept my degree, "You haven't learned enough. This is a mistake."

Sometimes I don't feel like I'm an adult. I often joke that I'm still only 3 years old as I maintain a sense of wonder about much of the world. If I grow up completely I'm afraid I'll lose that sense of wonder. But one thing that has made me feel a little more grown up in recent months is the e-mails I've been exchanging with Dr. Phil.

It turns out that Dr. Phil and I have a few things in common. We both have our own health issues to deal with and we both love biking. We are both passionate people, though about different things (and so it should be). It's one thing to grow as an individual in the presence of parents and other family members, but it seems very different to suddenly appear in someone's life again as a fully formed adult and be treated as such, not as a naive student. In an earlier post I talked about a young woman named Jessica. It is a joy to watch a young person learn and grow. Actually, anyone, no matter the age, is a joy to watch as something is learned and understood. That's what I enjoyed about tutoring adults at a local Literacy Centre, the "lightbulb" moments when something to do with geometry made sense or explaining punctuation in terms of traffic rules making it easier for my student to comprehend.

It turns out that humans are the only animals that make a concerted effort to teach others. All other animals "teach" their young by instinct, or the animal's behaviour is directed by chemicals. But for some reason, humans teach and know they are teaching, and continue to teach in even the most exasperating situations. We seem to want or need to impart little bits of info to others. Apes teach other apes by accident. They don't hover over their young and offer encouragement if the baby tries to do something. We do. Apes learn by trial and error and by watching and imitating. We do that as well, but we also learn by sharing information with each other, analyzing it, and then applying it. And it occurs in all societies at all levels, whether it's me as a 5 year old teaching my brother to tie his shoelaces or my mom teaching my father how to make biscuits, or it's Dr. Phil explaining the meaning of a story by Philip Roth.

Why do we like to teach other people? I suspect the answer is rather complicated, but on a very basic level has to do with teachers receiving positive reinforcement for successfully conveying an idea to a student. Yes, I'm a bit of a behaviorist. Think about it, though. A student's face lights up with understanding and it triggers a flush of warm fuzzies in the teacher. It may have taken hours, days, or weeks, but the positive reinforcement arrives in the form of the warm fuzzies. Sometimes the reinforcement is a paycheque or tenure. Even in non-traditional teaching situations, there is some form of reinforcement for the teacher.

But we also seem to have an "instinct" that drives us to teach others. Whether it's a drug dealer grooming an underling to do business or a mother and her child, there's something that drives us to teach. Animals don't have that drive. They can learn but they don't teach. But as much as I enjoyed my volunteer tutoring, I enjoy learning even more. I crave knowledge about a host of topics and I can get lost for hours on the net going from one subject to another. My learning is life long and non stop and I maintain a sense of wonder about the world around me. I suspect that my Dr. Phil feels the same way.

---- "Meeting The Future At Full Speed" by: "Karen Kosowski" http://www.karenkosowski.com/

"Conclusion:"

Yes Shauna, life is an education.

We learn until we die.

Sometimes we learn how to die ... well.

With meaning.

With dignity.

With purpose.

With some sense of having accomplished something which might out live us.

And you just "know" why I'm doing this podcast and not giving up, on me. on you, on us all.

And because I like this woman's voice, not just that she's from Toronto, we're getting another tune from "Karen Kosowski".

---- "Love & Bandaids" by: "Karen Kosowski" http://www.karenkosowski.com/

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Monday, August 04, 2008

msb-0335 Urbane Urbanism

msb-0335 Urbane Urbanism

James Howard Kunstler's TED Presentation:
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There's more here [ http://www.theoildrum.com/node/4345#more ] too.

intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://www.msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

I am appalled, appalled at the level of ignorance and the level of fear about MS out there; as much in the general population as, and this is unforgivable, in the medical community.

What should be a very minor disease, a "no biggie" disease, on the level with leprosy, controllable with a simple therapy, anti-viral in the case of leprosy, immuno-suppresant in the case of MS, is blown up to all kinds of levels, demonized and 'buggabooed" into some great unfathomable threat because of perceived mystery.

Believe me, I feel for your daughter.

She submitted to back surgery, back surgery, twice, at the hands of some quack, some ignorant imbecile, some orthopedic butcher, partly because she couldn't face the diagnosis from the neurologists.

I don't know which is more to blame, the neurologists who scared the crap out of her, the orthopedic surgeon who was just making things worse (and I am sure pocketed the money, but who doesn't have to live with the results,) or herself whos'stuck with the compounding effect.

This should be a nothing diagnosis, a non-event of a disease.

Its the mystery the fear of the unknown, that permits all of this crap to happen.

---- "Roadless Traveler" by: "Anduze" http://myspace.com/anduzemusic

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "Eternal Traveler" by: "Dave Percell" http://www.myspace.com/davepercell

Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send us an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"

---- "The Road Less Traveled" by: "Sweet Crystal" http://www.sweetcrystal.com/

"Thesis:"

I grew up in a suburb on the island of Montréal called Ville Lasalle.

It was near, like walking distance near, to where my father worked for the Seagram's distillery.

It was not that bad as far as childhoods go.

Then my dad changed jobs, started to work selling drugs (sorry, pharmaceuticals,) for "Merck, Sharpe and Dohme", and moved us all out to "Valleyfield" aka "Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Quebec," which was really way the hell out there out there, in the depth of suburbia. (I still remember the address that I had to memorise out there "193 Cossette". It sorta sucked 'cause it was really farm land and had a huge field acrosss the street and a huge "Bell Northern" plant out there. [I just Googled it and its now been paved over and filled with track style housing. {I'm actually of two minds about that. (Yeah it sucked but the field was actually nice and grew some great little wild strawberries. [Nope, you "can't" go home again.])}])

I am "older" than the crap we now wade through back and forth between house, work and the malls.

Okay, it was in Québec, which was a banch plant economy of Canada's branch plant economy and was getting developped third-hand by the "powers that be."

But it still predates the mauling of America. I was not living in ranch-style type tract housing until we'd been to the hinterlands if Valleyfield, come back to Ville Lasalle and lived there a while in various rental housing accomodations. (I still remember the pink "Princess" phone that my father, who must have been feeling paticularly flush at the time, got installed in our secods floor appartment by Bell. [This was back before you had "any" choice. "CNCP Telecommunications" was for businesses and Telex and stuff like that.])

---- "Soul Travelling" by: "Stingray" http://www.stingrayonline.com/

"Synthesis:"

So why am I traveling this way down memory lane; burning precious brain cells, and cheap podcast time, to bring you along?

I am a late-boomer, who is now in his mid-fifties and I can "remember" a world before the suburbs.

What was it about the 'burbs that we found so appealing?

What was it about the 'burbs that we found made it worth the trek back and forth; from nothing to nowhere? from oblivion to obligation?

What was it about the 'burbs that infected us with wanderlust [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wanderlust ] equal to our rebellious hearts.

Don't tell me that any kids growing up in the desolate 'burbs weren't rebellious.

We were the definition of rebellion.

As "Grace Slick" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Slick ] put it so eloquently "We have become the people our parents warned us about."

Were we struck by the same wanderlust that afflicted the British at the height of the English Romantic period, as exemplified by Percy Bysshe Shelley [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley ].

Back before the beginning of the "Age of Steam" [ http://www.railcentre.co.uk/ ] and the pseudo-democratization by Americans of the "Grand Tour" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Tour ] which rose to prominence at the end of the second world war.

I remember being at some English hotel, in "Rye" I think [ http://maps.google.com/maps?ie=UTF-8&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&q=Mermaid+inn&near=Rye,+East+Sussex,+UK&fb=1&cid=0,0,11417480990147446513&sa=X&oi=local_result&resnum=1&ct=image ], listening to some well heeled Americans advising their daughter about what she should do with her trust funds ("Muffy, darling, you can do what ever you want, so long as you don't touch the capital,") when we were interrupted but the loud banging of some unseen critter on the other side of the wall declaiming loudly in some flat mid-western accent that he wondered "Why they couldn't put the paneling in straight!" (When it had clearly been put in straight ... three hundred years ago ... when the wall was "new.")

Coming from Québec as I did, I "grokked" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok ] the pain on both sides of the paneling.

I am forever destined to be a "Stranger In A Strange Land" [ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stranger_In_A_Strange_Land ].

---- "dream traveler" by: "kcsaito" http://homepage.mac.com/kcsaito1963/PhotoAlbum8.html

"Conclusion:"

Yes, I grew up in a suburb on the island of Montréal called Ville Lasalle.

It was not that bad as far as childhoods go.

But its is at the root of my restlessness; that which drove me, (heck, with cheap oil, I could even afford to drive myself,) to see parts of the world that my ancestors couldn't even ever dream of, but are now only an internet connection away.

You don't have to go there to get there.

We now have riches that people in the past couldn't imagine.

As long as you can afford to share an internet connection, culture can be yours beyond what royalty in the past could have aspired to.

---- "Traveling beyond Time" by: "Ruddha" http://www.ruddha.com/

Outro

Sunday, August 03, 2008

msb-fr-0023 Il Fait Chaud

msb-fr-0023 Il Fait Chaud

Inner Circle - Sweat (A La La La La Long)
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intro

Désaveu! Désaveu! Désaveu!

MSBPodcast n'est pas aucune sorte de podcast médical.

Il est produit par et pour des SP'cimens.

Son but est de nous garder divertis, d'expliquer nos symptômes, de remarquer à propos de nos découvertes et d'élever la conscience générale envers notre maladie.

Le sentier à la maladie est ombragé, glauque et parsemé de rugueur.

Le sentier à la pleine forme est allumé par la lampe des connaissances.

----

J'ai un rapide et facile, sans peine et aussi pas si fouinard que ça formulaire d'enquête que j'ai vraiment, vraiment, vraiment besoin que vous alliez remplir.

Vous pouvez aller à ma page "podcast" [ http://www.msbpodcast.com ], cliquer sur le bouton du côté gauche de la page et répondre anonymement à quelques questions simples.

J'en ai vraiment besoin.

----

À Moi oûvre le programme...

Vous ètes chanceux, je n'ais rien a dire.

---- "Bring The Heat" par: "E3" http://www.cdbaby.com/ellishalliii

À Vous suit...

Ceci est votre segment.

Dite ce que vous voulez sur ce segment.

Faites part avec d'autre SPcimens n'importe quoi que vous voulez parteger.

Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"

---- "The Heats To Blame" par: "Casey Desmond" http://www.caseydesmond.com/

À L'aide est en troisième...

Avez-vous une thérapie, un produit, un bien ou un service qui est d'intérêt aux SP'cimen?

Considérez la publicité sur ce podcast.

Les mémentos sur ce segment coûtent seulement $0.03 par mémento par téléchargement d'une épisode. (Un $30CPM visé à SP'cimen.)

Il peut / devrait causer une annonce complète, en texte, audio ou vidéo, qui coûte $3.00 par téléchargement.

Cela semble cher jusqu'à ce que vous fassiez le calcul et vous vous rendiez compte que si personne ne le télécharge il ne vous coûte rien, à la différence de la presse, où vous ne pouvez pas souvent même placer une annonce dans aux journaux spécialisés, ou la radio ou la TV où vous gaspilleriez votre argent avec un taux de retour de 0.0833% de SP'cimen. (C'est environ six fois "au-dessous" du niveau "de bruit statistique".)

Mais MSBPodcast est 100 % dans votre marché et vous payez seulement par téléchargement de votre matériel.

L'enjeu en vaut la chandelle.

Atteignez les SP'cimens qui achèterait votre thérapie, produit, bien ou service, sans gaspiller votre argent de publicité sur quelqu'un qui n'est "pas" intéressé...

Envoyez moi un courriel: "charles à MSBPodcast.com"

---- "Sweat" par: "Darren Geffre" http://www.darrengeffre.com/

"Thèse:"

Ce programme aurait été une opportunitée parfaite pour avoir de la publicitée par les manufacturiers de vetements avec ces poches extra pour y glisser de ces insertions frigorifiées.

---- "WORKING, SWEATING" par: "girls stuff" http://www.9t9.ch/

"Synthèse:"

Je sais que l'armée Americaine en achète pour les soldats qui doivent aller passer du temp là oû c'est très chaud.

Il y a des companies, comme PolarTech, StaCool et Steelvest qui produise des vestes, mais je n'ai pas d'experience avec leur produits.

Je demeure a l'intérieur et je raze le climatiseur la semaine en Août oû je trouve la temperature trop élevée et trop humide.

---- "Baptized in Sweat" par: "ZAMARRO" http://www.zamarro.com/

"Conclusion:"

Malheureusement, ca devra attendre. "Ouè." Encore attendre.

Je pourrais faire tant de choses, si seulement on se connaissait.

Mais je n'ai pas de budget pour découvrir tout les manufacturiers ici, n'importe en Europe.

---- "Don't Sweat it" by: "The Soft Drugs" http://thesoftdrugs.com/

Outro

Friday, August 01, 2008

msb-0334 Being There

msb-0334 Being There

You Oughta Know
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intro

Disclaimer! Disclaimer! Disclaimer!

MSBPodcast is "not" any kind of a medical podcast.

It is by and for MSers.

Its purpose is to keep us entertained, to explain our symptoms, to remark on our discoveries, and to raise the general consciousness about our disease.

The path to illness is shadowy, murky and rough strewn.

The path to wellness is lit by the lamp of knowledge.

----

I have a quick and easy, painless and not too figgin' nosy customer survey that I really, really, really need you to go and fill out.

You can go to my podcast "page" [ http://www.msbpodcast.com/ ], click on the button on the left hand side of the page and anonymously answer a few simple questions.

I really need this.

----

Feedback comes first, so...

The MSIF (Multiple Sclerosis International Federation) is working with the World Health Organization (WHO) to promote the publication of a world-wide "Atlas of MS." [ http://www.msif.org/en/news/msif_news/atlas_of_ms_publ.html ].

As you know if you've gone to the "site" [ http://www.MSBPodcast.com ] I have a map of the world with dots representing the cities where my listeners come from.

Its unfortunate but I have listeners all over the planet. MS is a world-wide phenomenon.

I am glad to say that the Atlas will focus on the availability of treatments as well as on the geographic distribution of the disease.

---- "Being There" by: "Blake Ian" http://www.blakeian.com/

Feed Forward comes next, so...

This is "your" segment.

Say "your" piece on this segment.

Share with other MSers whatever "you" want to share.

Drop us an email: "charles at MSBPodcast.com"

---- "Sugarite" by: "Abra Moore" http://www.abramoore.com/

Feed Me comes third, so...

Do you have a therapy, product, good or service that is of interest to MSers?

Consider advertising on this podcast.

Reminders on this segment only cost $0.03 per reminder per download of an episode. (A $30CPM targeted at MSers.)

It can/should lead to a full ad, in text, audio or video, which costs $3.00 per download.

That sounds expensive until you do the math and realize that if nobody downloads it it costs you nothing, unlike print, where you often can't even get an ad in to the specialized journals, or radio or TV where you'd just be wasting your money with the 0.0833% MSers rate of return. (That's about six times "below" the level of "statistical noise".)

But MSBPodcast is 100% in your market, and you only pay per download of your material.

No play, no pay.

Reach the MSers who would buy your therapy, product, good or service, with-out having to waste your advertising money on anyone who is "not" interested...

Send us an email at: "charles (at) MSBPodcast.com"

---- "Glue" by: "Cantaloop" http://www.cantaloop.net/

"Thesis:"

"This" [ http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/22/technology/22meet.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin ] article in the New York Times sort of says it all.

Being there is essential for somethings, and irrelevant for others.

---- "Rather Stay Alone" by: "Geordie Keitt" http://producer.geordiekeitt.com/

"Synthesis:"

For people like me who are mobility challenged by MS the rise of the use of tele-presence is the world of work is a wonderful thing and its increased acceptance, and co-evolving lower cost alternatives to "being here", is a blessing that I can't tell you enough about.

Once again, I'm ahead of the curve on this one, having most recently worked form an off-shore out-sourcing firm. They handled things with the less satisfactory medium of the conference call but it was still adequate for the purposes of providing status updates (Though the use of Twitter would have been more immediate, rapid and concise.)

Where I first encountered a telepresence room however was at a branch of a multi-national company located in Kansas City which had some constant interaction with and in the rest of the United States.

The project I was on was associated with others within the company, would have necessitated hundred of thousands of dollars of travel expenses and that would have slowed the pace of work, bogging everybody down in a mire of customs, with some workers, airports, traffic and conflicting schedules. (Not to mention that while they were on-site, they weren't being "productive"; they were being "expensive," [there's "no" R.O.I.])

The use of tele-presence rooms was a great thing and the extension of the group through its use in other branches allowed us all to reach some goals much more quickly, and, as Ben Franklin said, "Time is money" [ http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/q101411.html ].

At the time it was enough money that it was worth several hundred thousand dollars a room to equip several locations with telepresence hardware and to pay for the communication costs. (This was "before" the internet, and all of that bandwidth, became a cheap, ubiquitous presence in all of our lives.)

---- "Ironbound" by: "katiesawicki" http://www.katiesawicki.com/

"Conclusion:"

The reason I'm so glad that telepresence is becoming more widely accepted is that it more sharply focuses the costs and importance of "Being There" [ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078841/ ] and of "not" being there.

By dint of having this damn disease, there are lots of times when having to go there means a lot of fuss, unneessary work and botheration.

The capacity of not having to actually be there to, uh, be there, is wonderful.

That said, there "are" things where you actual presence is required.

What we do there, well I don't wanna "go there", so there... :-)

---- "Restless" by: "Campbells Transfer Company" http://pressroom.btpodshow.com/music/?artist_id=4916

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